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Date:      Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:42:49 -0300 (ART)
From:      Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.1 on a 386
Message-ID:  <20030612173325.K26278-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
In-Reply-To: <44d6hjjcer.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On 12 Jun 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>
> No, the 386SX is a problem because it has no floating point registers
> (or any other floating point support, for that matter).  The 386DX
> (with the floating point support onboard) is supported just fine, as I
> understand it.

No. That's the diference between the 486SX and the 486DX. The 386
never had FP on chip, you need a separate 387. The 386SX is a 386
with a 16-bit data bus, instead of the 32-bit data bus of the 386.


		Fer



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